July 10 Geoquiz! Where are you?

Ready to play? Take a peek at the photo, ponder the clues – wait, who’s wiggling? – then guess where you are.

Thousand-foot drop-offs

A bucket-list trail

A celestial landing

And Walter’s Wiggles

Still mystified? Here’s the answer…

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Answer: The trail to Angel’s Landing at Zion National Park is one of the great bucket-list hikes, a 5.2-mile round trip trek that ascends 1,500 feet across dizzying, narrow, steep and extremely switchback-y terrain. At some points, all that stands between you and a 1,000-foot drop is a chain. Ulp.

This particular stretch is known as Walter’s Wiggles, a crazy switchback-riddled upward climb designed in 1926 by Walter Ruesh, the park’s first superintendent, who did not let his absence of engineering experience get in the way of crafting a trail up what looked like an impossible vertical expanse. This stretch, with its 20 tight switchbacks, is named for him.

Interesting factlet: The park’s West Rim Trail underwent enormous repairs in 1985, with 88 cubic yards of concrete used to resurface Walter’s Wiggles alone. The concrete was flown in via helicopter — a feat that required 258 flights.

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